Three Brothers (Chagos Archipelago)
Three Brothers | ||
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Location of the Three Brothers on the western edge of the Great Chagos Bank in the Chagos Archipelago | ||
Waters | Indian Ocean | |
Geographical location | 6 ° 9 ′ S , 71 ° 31 ′ E | |
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Number of islands | 4th | |
Main island | South Brother | |
Total land area | 0.38 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited |
Three Brothers (also called Trois Frères ) is a small, uninhabited group of islands on the western fringing reef of the Great Chagos Bank (" Great Chagos Bank "), which has the world's most extensive atoll structure. It belongs geographically to the Chagos Archipelago and politically to the British Indian Ocean Territory .
The archipelago is about 20 kilometers east of the Eagle Islands and consists of four islands, from northwest to southeast:
- North Brother or Île du Nord (6 ha)
- Middle Brother or Île du Milieu (8 ha)
- unnamed islet (1 ha)
- South Brother or Île du Sud (23 ha)